What countries use 12-hour time?
What countries use 12-hour time? 9) Eighteen (18) Countries use the 12-hour clock: Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, El Salvador, Honduras, India, Ireland, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia and U.S. (although the military uses the 24-hour clock).
Is 1201 a midnight?
12:01 a.m. is one minute after midnight. A new day starts at midnight. So if this time shows on an insurance document as “August 22, 2019 12:01 a.m.,” it means one minute after midnight on August 22, 2019.
Why is it called midnight?
It’s no surprise that midnight is the very middle of the night, the word itself stemming from the Old English mid-niht, from mid, “among” or “in the middle of,” and night, from niht, which appropriately means both “night” and “darkness.”
Is midnight the next day?
The next day begins a nanosecond after midnight. So, it seems most accurate to say that each day ends at midnight, and the next day starts “immediately after midnight.”
